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Hi Abby,

Try a build like this: http://www.wowhead.com/talent#…..edAhsk:NfA, making sure to follow the glyph suggestions as well.

The armory isn't showing me your pet's build, but it should be this: http://www.wowhead.com/petcalc…..00sc00hooo.

The biggest problem I see with your gear is that you're waaaay over-hit-capped. The highest you can have in PvE is 8%; you're at 17.7%. Every point of hit rating above 263 is just wasted. You have 581 hit rating, which means you have 318 points that are doing nothing for you, and instead could be used for other stats such as crit or armor pen.

Now I understand that a lot of ICC gear is loaded with hit, but you've also gemmed for hit in 2 places.

Your trinkets aren't doing much for you, which translates to a huge DPS loss. Trinkets are a valuable source of DPS, but the ones you're using both have hit as their primary stat, and again, you're getting nothing from it. I'd suggest buying DMC: Greatness (if you can afford it) and running H FoS for Needle Encrusted Scorpion. Whispering Fanged Skull is another nice option if you can get it (10 man ICC / 2nd boss). Any combination of those three trinkets would give you a noticeable increase in DPS.

You may want to have a look at this post: http://huntsmanslodge.com/5869…..rating.htm

As a Survival hunter, you should be enhancing your gear with agility wherever possible. You have some attack power gems, as well as 32ap on your boots. I recommmend swapping those out for their agility based counterparts.

You should have Massacre on your 2H. You have an ilvl 251 2H, which is certainly worth Massacre (110AP).

Put the crit/ap leg kit on your pants. The leg kit you're using is one I'd suggest for PvP, but not for dungeoning and raiding.

Alrighty… so being the ever-helpful hunter… I went ahead and plugged you into Zehera's spreadsheet so that I can show you what  the return on your investment will look like…

Your best-possible DPS right now is 8178.93

For the price of a respec and one glyph, you can add a little over 4.5%, ~379.5DPS.

This figure may actually be higher depending upon how your pet is specced. If your wolf is specced any different than what's shown in my build, then you'll gain even more.

Just changing your build (and pet build if needed) will bring you to 8558.43 best-possible.

If you swap out those gems (40 ap for 20 agil, 20ap/10hit for 10agil/10crit) you'll gain almost 90 additional dps.

Here's a funny one…

Darkmoon Card Greatness, which happens to be an ilvl 200 trinket, will provide you with over a 200 DPS upgrade over that of your ilvl 245 Mark of Supremacy.

Needle Encrusted Scorpion will add about 110 more dps over that of the Pyrite Infuser.

Let's recap:

Your current DPS: 8179

Your DPS can go to…

• 8558 if you follow my respec and re-glyph suggestions
• 8647 if you regem, re-enchant/upgrade a couple enchants, use the DPS leg armor
• 8852 if you spring for DMC: Greatness
• 8962 if you get ahold of NES

Best case scenario, your DPS goes up by about 10%, which is really huge. However, it sounds like maybe you're having some trouble with shot priority and mechanics. While I can guarantee results if you follow my talent and itemization advice, you're going to have to work on the other part yourself. Regardless of what sort of upgrades you adhere to in this post, the biggest gain is going to come from getting your shot priority down and getting the most from your abilities and cooldowns.

This article should be of some help: http://huntsmanslodge.com/the-…..r-survival

I hope some of this helps.

Feel free to follow up if you have other questions.

You might want to play around with my UI some… http://huntsmanslodge.com/gar-ui

I wouldn't tackle it before the raid, but if you can take a little time getting used to things, it may help you substantially.

You can see it in action here: http://huntsmanslodge.com/hunt…..ower-auras

I use Power Auras to let me know when Black Arrow is off cooldown, Serpent Sting has fallen off, Hunter's Mark is not up, L'n'L procs, buff procs, kill shot's ready, etc…

NeedToKnow shows me the duration of my Serpent Sting and Explosive Shots, as well as my item buff durations – another very useful addon.

OmniCC shows the actual cooldown count over the ability in the action bar and AzCastBar shows me my auto-shot timer.

These 4 addons are very useful for increasing DPS. They provide you with information that allows you to be more efficient with your rotation.

Omen is also huge, but I imagine you're already using that. Aggro management is also an important part of the DPS equation, especially as you start to produce more of it.

If you have any questions regarding my UI setup (if you decide to try it), fire away. At the very least, I suggest you play with the following addons: OmniCC, AzCastBar and NeedToKnow.

That's good news.

Keep up the good work.